The United States managed to airlift more than 120,000 US citizens, Afghans and foreigners since the Taliban’s lightning takeover on August 15 — but hundreds of thousands were left behind.
In a sign of the pitfalls ahead, the government was accused Tuesday of wrongly taking credit for, and even actively obstructing, the first mission to get Americans out since the completion of the withdrawal at the end of August.
Republican congressmen Markwayne Mullin and Ronny Jackson heaped scorn on the government after helping stage the evacuation Monday of a Texas woman and her three children.
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